EA went for an action/adventure game to follow the thrill-a-minute-for-200-minutes film. EA has the rights to the movies, Vivendi Universal (now publishing under the name Black Label Games) got the book rights. This was the game that you read about - or rather, it's the Game Boy Advance version of it - in all the brouhaha following the licensing of The Lord of the Rings. Follows the original text of Tolkien's novel.Go on a quest with the complete Fellowship in your party.how will that be fun? Vivendi Universal sought out to prove me wrong - or at least answer my questions - with this game. And right away, we had kids writing in saying, "Oh my god, this would make SUCH a great RPG!" My questions back always was, "How?" How would a game with a story that we already know (two times over for most fans, considering how the movie brought Tolkien's novel to life in such a definitive way,) that certainly will not have the freedom from plot to let you explore Middle Earth as you'd want to in an RPG, that surely would not carry the depth of text of the novels, and that will (or may - my apologies to all the genuine RPG enthusiasts in the world) bore you to tears with a bunch of menus instead of delivering real excitement. This first part of the only completely unabridged recording of one of the most beloved stories of all time includes Tolkien's original Forward and Prologue to The Lord of the Rings.So when The Lord of the Rings began to come back as a hot property, I just shook my head knowing where the games would be going. Let master narrator Rob Inglis guide you through all the awesome beauty and terrifying evil of J.R.R. Joining together in a fellowship of his closest friends and a mix of unlikely allies, under the guidance of the wizard Gandalf, Frodo prepares for a perilous journey in a desperate quest that may be the only hope for restoring light to the land. Sauron's shadow threatens to engulf all.īut in the peaceful, far-off Shire, a hobbit named Frodo Baggins holds a ring that may be the key to defeating Sauron. Great wizards have failed to keep it in check. Men and elves and dwarves have raised armies in futile efforts to combat this evil. From his fortress tower in Mordor, the evil sorcerer Sauron sends forth a darkness that creeps across the enchanged land of Middle-earth.
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